Multigrain parallel delaunay mesh generation: Challenges and opportunities for multithreaded architectures

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 367-376

  Antonopoulos, Christos D ^a   Ding, Xiaoning ^a   Chernikov, Andrey ^a   Blagojevic, Filip ^a   Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S ^a   Chrisochoides, Nikos ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

MULTITHREADED ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL CONSTRAINED DELAUNAY MESH (PCDM) GENERATION; PROLIFERATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 32844464028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1088149.1088198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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